Author: KMAN Staff

Ross Kivett went two for five and scored a pair of runs and Jared Moore won for the fifth time in six decisions as the Kansas State Baseball team defeated Creighton 8-5 Saturday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. in the middle game of a three-game non-conference weekend series. Despite scoring runs in five of the first six innings of the game, the Wildcats held just a 6-5 lead over the Blue Jays who won the series opener Friday night 4-3. In the top of the eighth inning however, K-State picked up the insurance it needed on R.J.…

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MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) Police in the central Kansas town of McPherson have identified a man found dead outside a storage shed as a 26-year-old resident of the community. The death of Ernest Charles Miller is being investigated as suspicious, although police have not yet classified it as a homicide. Miller’s identity was released Friday, one day after two people passing by spotted the body. The McPherson Sentinel reports an autopsy concluded Miller died of blunt trauma and suffocation. Police had also been looking for Miller’s car and found it Thursday night at his home.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas will join Oklahoma in suing the federal government over the addition of the lesser prairie chicken to its list of threatened species. Brownback announced his state’s response Friday during a news conference. Oklahoma sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court last week, challenging the process under which the federal agency was considering the listing. The Kansas governor said there was no need for the federal agency to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened because five states containing its habitat have developed a conservation plan. The states are Kansas,…

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Tallgrass Brewing Company has made it official. While we’ve been hearing at Manhattan City commission meetings and from other sources about the company’s plans to expand, a news release from Company President Jeff Gill  indicates the company is making plans to triple its brewing capacity.   This is the brewery’s latest move in solidifying Tallgrass as a regional player in the exploding national craft beer market. Tallgrass will be acquiring an existing 60,000 square foot building in Manhattan, Kansas, which it will convert into a brewery. Tallgrass is already the largest brewery in Kansas with its 2013 production exceeding 16,000 barrels…

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Unemployment numbers are unchanged for the Manhattan metropolitan area compared to the month before, according to figures just released by the Kansas Department of Labor. 5.4 percent is the unemployment rate for February, which was the same in January and a bit lower than the 5.5 percent from last February.   The metro area includes Riley, Pottawatomie, and Geary Counties. The Manhattan metro area’s unemployment rate in February is the lowest in the state when compared to other metro areas   The city of Manhattan by itself had a 4.2 percent rate, up a tenth from January but lower than last…

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New K-State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie has hired the first member of his coaching staff, and it’s a very familiar face for the veteran coach.  Mittie named former TCU associate head coach Brian Osterman to the same position at K-State.  It’s a job he held under Mittie for the last six years with the Horned Frogs. Osterman has 23 years of coaching experience, including nine as a men’s head coach at Colby Community College and Missouri State-West Plains. Stay connected to all things KSU on the go just text EMAW to 88474 For full video wrap-ups, including analysis, highlights, coaches…

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